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Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] Damarus@feddit.org 110 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I wouldn't be happy with 8 GB of RAM regardless of OS.

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Same, I am often about 8 GB of RAM with my daily usage.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Debian keeps barfing on me with 16.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Heh, I have 64 and still can run out. Teams and Outlook for work, one or two java projects in IntelliJ, rust project in Neovim... try to build and run tests with maven and I'm at 70-80% easily. Couple more tabs like discord and I'm out of memory.

[–] Damarus@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

I feel that. My new workstation will have 128 GB, I'm very excited about it

[–] kill_dash_nine@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What sort of apps are you running?

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Mostly Firefox with an admittedly ridiculous number of tabs.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Those are load bearing tabs...

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think my last count hit north of 500 tabs...

I... I may have a bit of a problem...

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That's like an order of magnitude more than me. There's gotta be something else going on with my system.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Get yourself the ‘auto discard tabs’ extension.

Tbf Firefox seems to have started using much more memory a year or so ago: I could easily hit over 200 tabs, now fifty are a problem. Though it could just be me having switched to the developer edition.

[–] foggenbooty@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Nor would I, but if apps were actually optimized instead of the Electron nonsense we have now we'd be in a better place. I really hope this forces us to finally build better again instead of relying on infinite resources.